Corbusier Quotes
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Corbusier Quotes & Sayings
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The materials of city planning are: sky, space, trees, steel and cement; in that order and that hierarchy.
— Le Corbusier
A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe, and fifty times : It is a beautiful catastrophe.
— Le Corbusier
Architecture is the learned game; correct and magnificent of forms assembled in the light
— Le Corbusier
If only people realized Corbusier is pure nineteenth century, Manchester school utilitarian, and that's why they like him.
— Evelyn Waugh
Our own epoch is determining, day by day, its own style. Our eyes, unhappily, are unable yet to discern it.
— Le Corbusier
When does a building actually become a built?
— Le Corbusier
By law, all buildings should be white.
— Le Corbusier
The home should be the treasure chest of living.
— Le Corbusier
This one Corbusier lamp was like, my greatest inspiration ... I'm a minimalist in a rapper's body.
— Kanye West
Cameras get in the way of seeing.
— Le Corbusier
The house is a machine for living in.
— Le Corbusier
Chairs are architecture, sofas are bourgeois.
— Le Corbusier
Vehicular traffic is completely forbidden in the green strips, where tranquility shall reign and the curse of noise shall not penetrate.
— Le Corbusier
Genius is personal, decided by fate, but it expresses itself by means of system. There is no work of art without system.
— Le Corbusier
Modern life demands, and is waiting for, a new kind of plan, both for the house and the city.
— Le Corbusier
The purpose of construction is TO MAKE THINGS HOLD TOGETHER; of architecture TO MOVE US.
— Le Corbusier
Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.
— Le Corbusier
My research is like my feeling, directed towards what is the principle value in the life
the poetry. — Le Corbusier
the poetry. — Le Corbusier
The "styles" are a lie.
— Le Corbusier
I like to be in New York. Le Corbusier described it in the 1930s as a 'wonderful catastrophe.' It is still a wonderful catastrophe, but inspiring.
— Dieter Rams
A house is a machine for living in.
— Le Corbusier
It is a question of building which is at the root of the social unrest of today: architecture or revolution.
— Le Corbusier